Disssipater: is it all it's cracked up to be?

[ElectricDragon]

The psionic weapon ability, Dissipater says:

This kind of weapon is devastating to creatures and objects composed of or originally formed from ectoplasm (such as astral constructs, walls of ectoplasm, creatures in ectoplasmic form, and items created using the metacreativity discipline). Against qualifying targets, a dissipater weapon ignores damage reduction and hardness, and treats all successful hits as critical hits.

Astral Constructs (which are constructs), objects, and creatures in ectoplasmic form are all immune to critical hits. Does this weapon override that immunity and actually deal critical damage on each hit against qualifying targets? Or is this something that was accidently added without really knowing the rules and only the part about DR and hardness applies?

Ciao
Dave

 

[FEADIN]

I think it overrides the immunity, it seems in line with the power to create it: Dismiss Ectoplasm,which destroy ectoplasmic forms on a failed will save.

 

[Corsair]

I think it overrides the immunity, it seems in line with the power to create itismiss Ectoplasm,which destroy ectoplasmic forms on a failed will save.

Which would make sense, considering everything given as examples in the description are all normally immune to crits. Why add that line unless it overrode it? (Only other thing that'd be effected is burst weapons)

 

[ken-ichi]

I would say it functions similarily to a sunblade in that it allows extra crit damage against things normally immune to crits. So yes, crit away.

 

[ElectricDragon]

Thanks for the replies. I was hoping that was the way it would go, otherwise the weapon ability is overrated at +1 to just ignore hardness and DR for a very limited group of creatures and objects.

Ciao
Dave